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reveille

2012年10月31日 | 英語学習
A MOMENT OF WARの主人公は今はトレーニングキャンプ地であるTarazona de la Manchaにいます。
After reveille came the brief luxury of lying awake, while those whose turn it was to do so brought round tin-drums of coffee brewed on fires in the snow outside. Ladled into our mugs, it had two cosy qualities: colour and warmth. Its flavour was boiler grease.
"ladle" が動詞にもなるのは便利ですね。さて、今日覚える単語は "reveille" です。
・Vocabulary.com: a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise: Reveille sounded at four o'clock Monday morning, and the packing of saddles began at once.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a musical signal played to wake up soldiers in the morning, or the time when it is played
私の目覚まし時計の音もbugleの起床ラッパだと直ぐ起きれて良いかも。
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